 We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness...  The Island Worlds of the Pacific Ocean - Seite 190von Charles Marion Tyler - 1892 - 337 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 324 Seiten
...some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1850 - 350 Seiten
...draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but...by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climat« that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland nor the activity of... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 Seiten
...eloquence which will be rehearsed as long as the English language is spoken.* But though he exclaims, " No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their toils," the commerce and navigation of the colonies are scarce worthy of mention, in comparison... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - 1851 - 188 Seiten
...the House of Commons on American affairs, pronounced an eulogy deserving of grateful remembrance. ' No sea, but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activy of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise,... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game on the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate but what is witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 Seiten
...some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 Seiten
...some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 Seiten
...some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of...by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous... | |
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